Incident

This poem is also about discrimination. It talks about a memory  the author has that has marked him in an awful way when he was just a child. He was referred as a "nigger" by another boy from the same age. Even though, the children are so young and they don't even completely know the meaning of this word, one boy uses it to discriminate the author. It is surprising how the parents educate their children and since that age the discrimination is present.

When the author smiles to the white children, and that boy calls him a nigger, he felt like if a snake has bite him and all the poison was running through his body. Discrimination is a terrible action that can mark everyone's life.